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by Bombcat » Tue Jul 21, 2015 1:42 pm
Space probes like New Horizon are only capable of flight, and of reaching their tremendous velocities, in outer space. On it's own, the craft would not be able to take off from the ground, let alone fly and maneuver within Earth's atmosphere. To the extent that it could, YS does a rather poor job of modeling thrust born flight, even to the modest extent that it models anything. YS also cannot currently model outer space. As a result, while YS can more or less handle spacecraft which are also capable of atmospheric flight (Space Shuttle, many fictional types), it is a rather poor fit for pure spacecraft.
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